[Plugin] Selection Toys

thomthom

@dave r said:

FWIW, Csaba's directions work for me but using the Components tool on the Selection Toys toolbar doesn't seem to do anything.

Can you provide a sammple model and/or video?
Any errors in the Ruby Console?

Dave R

Maybe I'm using it wrong Thomas. I've tried selecting a component which I know has more than one instance. Then I click on the tool with the two green boxes. Nothing changes. I've tried getting the tool first and then clicking on a component. Nothing different there, either. I'll send you an example model though.

thomthom

That button is to filter the selection.

To select similar instances, use the context menu.

Dave R

Thanks Thomas.

leedeetee

Hi,

Could someone help me with this ...

I'm trying to get the Selection Toys to work, I have the following fodlers in Plugins:

TT_Lib TT_Lib2

and then also tt_selection_toys in there, too.

SU loads up fine but then nothing is shown in the plugins.

What am I doign wrong?

Thanks.

leedeetee

@leedeetee said:

Hi,

Could someone help me with this ...

I'm trying to get the Selection Toys to work, I have the following fodlers in Plugins:

TT_Lib TT_Lib2

and then also tt_selection_toys in there, too.

SU loads up fine but then nothing is shown in the plugins.

What am I doign wrong?

Thanks.

IGNORE ME! Sorry, Sorted.

danbig

I get no error message, but the context menu doesn't seem to do anything for me. I'll check the console next time I try.

@thomthom said:

That button is to filter the selection.

To select similar instances, use the context menu.

thomthom

@danbig said:

I get no error message, but the context menu doesn't seem to do anything for me. I'll check the console next time I try.

@thomthom said:

That button is to filter the selection.

To select similar instances, use the context menu.

Can you describe more specifically the steps you are doing? And what you have pre-selected etc?

danbig

In the model, I have 420 instances of a single component.

I select one of the instances, and right click.

Under the "Instances" context menu, I choose "Select All".

What I want to happen, is that all 420 instances of this component to be selected. In my case, nothing happens. Nothing posts to the console. Am I trying to use it correctly?

@thomthom said:

@danbig said:

I get no error message, but the context menu doesn't seem to do anything for me. I'll check the console next time I try.

@thomthom said:

That button is to filter the selection.

To select similar instances, use the context menu.

Can you describe more specifically the steps you are doing? And what you have pre-selected etc?

thomthom

Can you post or send me a sample model?

Lorelalala

Really useful stuff!

TT, Thank you so much!

danbig

Here's a sample model. I can't get the selection toys plugin to select all the instances of either component. I'm pretty sure that there is something simple about operating this plugin that i'm missing.

@thomthom said:

Can you post or send me a sample model?

Test 1.skp

thomthom

@danbig said:

Here's a sample model. I can't get the selection toys plugin to select all the instances of either component. I'm pretty sure that there is something simple about operating this plugin that i'm missing.

@thomthom said:

Can you post or send me a sample model?

I tried both Instance -> Select Active and Instances -> Select All and both of them worked...

Gaieus

(Okay, so this was when I got stumped for losing my toys.)

Now I am fine and I also tried and can select all or active instances with no issues.

danbig

Strange. I wonder if I have an obscure conflict with other plugins that doesn't result in an error message, but which prevents selection toys from operating normally. Is such a thing possible?

I'll scrub through my plugins and see if it works when it's the only plugin installed.

@thomthom said:

@danbig said:

Here's a sample model. I can't get the selection toys plugin to select all the instances of either component. I'm pretty sure that there is something simple about operating this plugin that i'm missing.

@thomthom said:

Can you post or send me a sample model?

I tried both Instance -> Select Active and Instances -> Select All and both of them worked...

thomthom

It would be very odd.

And you are sure you have the latest version..?

monkeybss

I don't know what happened, a few days ago everything was fine, but this mornig I opened Sketchup and I got this message"
"Error Loading File tt_selection_toys.rb
no such file to load -- TT_Lib/ui_manager.rb"
I have the latest updates for TT_LIB2 and TT_SELECTION_TOYS .I can't see a file called ui_manager.rb anywhere.
Has anyone an idea about what's going on?

thomthom

TT_Lib2 does not replace TT_Lib version 1.
For Selection Toys you need to have TT_Lib linked in this thread original post.

Version 2 is not backwards compatible with version 1.

monkeybss

Thank you thomthom, this solved my problem.

mmscanlo

I love the concept and potential usefulness, but I have a slight issue: I can't seem to get it to work (specs on the sidebar). I haven't messed with any of the files or their locations within the folders - I simply unzipped the files provided and then drag & dropped the folders "TT_Lib" and "tt_selection_toys" into "Macintosh HD>Library>Application Support>Google SketchUp 8>SketchUp>plugins".

I don't get an error message when I launch, though.

I also tried copying the same folders to the SketchUp 7 equivalent of the plugins folder ("Macintosh HD>Library>Application Support>Google SketchUp 7>SketchUp>plugins"). Same result - no "Selection Toys" shows up under the Tools drop-down menu, but no error message appears, either. That folder only contains the standard plugins from Google (Ocean, Examples, and Utilities) so it's not an issue of plugin interference, either.

I've no idea what else I should try doing but would really like to use this; thanks in advance, both for the advice and the (massive) coding.